Greetings, Earnie Boyd! >> Said that, it IS possible to create a symbolic link to a file in Windows XP, >> even though you can't access it afterward.
> I think you mean a junction (reparse point) instead of a symbolic > link. I mean exactly symbolic link. It is properly created and attributed, but FS can't grant access to it afterward - the system error message says something along the lines of "Access to this file is not available in this operating system" (Curse microsoft for localized error messages) > Yes, it is possible to have a junction to a file even though it > isn't supposed to work (meaning documented as not supported). The > underlying API will do the right thing but the Windows UI doesn't grok > it properly. Not UI, base FS driver can't handle it properly in XP. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 01.05.2013, <09:45> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
